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"The superfluous, that very necessary thing..." - Voltaire
User talk:Shirt58/archive/2019 Lund University, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
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User talk:Shirt58/The Cockatoo Incident
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User talk:Shirt58/September 2012 book cover deletions
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User talk:Shirt58/Archive 14 (up to early December 2013)
User talk:Shirt58/Archive 15 (December 13 to April 2014, though I have mostly lost track of what is and what was not
archived)
User talk:Shirt58/Archive 16 (May 2014 to December 2014. Probably. Sort of.)
User talk:Shirt58/Archive 17 (December 2014 to mid July 2015. Attempt to de-clutter userspace - cut into this archive)
User talk:Shirt58/Archive 18 (Late July 2015 to late February 2016. Includes DYK for Happy Man (Sunnyboys song)
User talk:Shirt58/Archive 19 (Late February 2016 to early April 2017. Includes DYK for Mason Cox
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Nomination of The Ambassador (West novel) for deletion
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I read your email! I actually do have a draft idea, and I'm waiting for someone from a wiki project to get back to me on it. I'm more interested in counter-vandalism as well TheClocksAlwaysTurn (The Clockworks) (contribs) 10:43, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Please do not immediately tag articles for A7, as you did here. It is bitey and often counterproductive. Thanks. lp0 on fire () 11:53, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2026
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Interface administrator changes
- Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
- The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).
- The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
- Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
- Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
- The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.
- The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
- The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
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A cheeseburger for you!
For helping me on Tassie related edits
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2026).

- Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.
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CHEDDAR
If you want that joke to work more than momentarily, I think you'll have to make it so Wikipedia:Courtesy helps ensure discussion decorum and amicable resolutions is a {{soft redirect}} to Wikipedia:Civility, and WP:CHEDDAR is a hard (regular) redirect to the soft redirect. Otherwise, a bot will "fix" the double redirect and WP:CHEDDAR will just redirect to WP:Civility without an obvious reason why.
Now, CHEDDAR being a hard redirect would make sense, but does that mean the soft redirect would be... Camembert? Brie? Mmm maybe Roquefort. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 10:10, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
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- A request for comment asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
- A request for comment proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy.
- The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429)
- The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account. (phab:T427125)
- Following a series of motions, changes to the contentious topics procedure to restructure awareness have been implemented.
- The arbitration case Michael Jackson has been closed.
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